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waxy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective waxy has 4 senses
- waxy(a = adj.pert) waxen - made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" Derived forms noun wax1, noun waxiness1
- waxy(a = adj.all) impressible, impressionable - easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind"
- waxy(s = adj.all) bendable, pliable, pliant - capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
- waxy(s = adj.all) waxen, waxlike - having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness"
CIDE DICTIONARY
waxy, a.
Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
Waxy degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under Amyloid . -- Waxy kidney, Waxy liver , etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
waxy, adj. (waxier, waxiest) resembling wax in consistency or in its surface.
Derivative
waxily adv. waxiness n.
waxy, adj. (waxier, waxiest) Brit. sl. angry, quick-tempered.
Etymology
WAX(3) + -Y(1)
ROGET THESAURUS
waxy
Resentment
N resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation, exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall, heart-burning, heart-swelling, rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper, irascibility, ill blood, revenge, excitement, irritation, warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition, towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums, burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words, scowl, sulks, affront, provocation, offense, indignity, grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn, outrage, Furies, Eumenides, buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles, angry, wrath, irate, ireful, wrathful, cross, Achillean, sulky, bitter, virulent, acrimonious &c (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over, fuming, raging, foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage, offended, waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up, indignant, hurt, sore, set against, fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon, angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment, Int, tantaene animis coelestibus irae!, marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, beware the fury of a patient man, furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, What, drunk with choler?.Unctuousness
N unctuousness, unctuosity, lubricity, ointment, anointment, lubrication, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous, unguinous, fat, fatty, greasy, waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous, slippery.
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